The Boy Who Lived in the WWE
Where There's a Will
Of all the things you could call Vincent Kennedy McMahon, one of the most important ones would be business man. Time was very important to Mr. McMahon and he hated wasting time on stupid things like waiting in offices and sleeping. The only thing preventing him from storming out of the office was the fact that this meeting was about some old family friends of his, the Evans. Michael and Holly Evans were friends with his father and had lent him some of the money he needed to by the WWF from his father and turn into a worldwide phenomenon. Vince was legitimately saddened to hear about their passing several years ago followed by the death of another friend of his, their daughter Lily.
Vince was brought out of his thoughts by the sudden entry of the lawyer.
"Good afternoon, Mr. McMahon. Thank you for coming in. We've called you in today to discuss one of our firm's clients."
"I heard that Lily Evans had died, but that was months ago. Why am I just hearing about her will now?"
"Well Mr. McMahon, I'm afraid this will has had some unfortunate things happen to it. You see a few months ago there was a fire at our former office. This fire damaged many of our files and we've been struggling to get copies of all of the documents from our clients. One of these documents was a will written by one Lily Potter, formerly Lily Evans. It took us a while, but we finally got a copy from her sister Petunia Dursley. Unfortunately, her copy was also damaged," the lawyer explained.
"Okay," Vince answered, wondering how he fit into this.
"Between our two copies were able to make a complete and accurate reconstruction of her will...except for the page that explains what she wanted done with her son. See this is where things get very...unusual. We must follow the exact letter of the will as we can read it."
"Which means?" Vince asked.
"Well what's left of her will leaves guardianship of her son Harry to...your company."
"What?"
"Yeah, it starts 'My son Harry should be raised by...' and there are several words missing and then 'the World Wrestling Federation.'"
"Can you leave a child to be raised by a company?"
"Like I said, we have to follow it to the letter. So since your company cannot literally raise him, Harry will have to be raised by your employees."
Author's Note: Okay, not a great chapter, but here's the deal. This chapter is basically the template for the first chapter in a challenge: Harry is raised by the WWF/E, whatever year it is. I've read several fictions where either Harry becomes a wrestler, or is raised by the Undertaker (directly or by somebody who has Taker become part of Harry's life). But I have never read a story where a young Harry is raised in the WWE.
Rules:
1.) Basically Harry is raised by a rotating cast of WWE wrestlers...with whoever you want, whenever you want. Want Harry to spend time with The Shield? Write it. Want Harry to go on the road with the Ultimate Warrior? Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel and write it. Want Harry to sit worried backstage at Wrestlemania as he watches one of his favorite "uncles", Edge, spear the other, Jeff Hardy, in mid-air? Write it! The time period doesn't matter!
2.) Genre: Doesn't matter: Want a comedy fic where Harry helps DX prank people...write it. Want to write a serious chapter where CM Punk wonders how he's going to tell Harry that he's going to quit the WWE? I might cry, but if you want to...write it!
3.) If you're going to have somebody in the WWE is going to teach Harry magic, its not the Undertaker or Kane. Wizard Taker and Kane have been done, I want to see somebody unexpected...like Damien Sandow or maybe Funaki, Smackdown #1 announcer and wizard.
4.) I don't want to read your series and after three chapters be able to say, "Oh its what (ex. Stone Cold) would do if he took Harry Potter's place." Sure seeing Harry flip the bird and hit the stunner all the Death Eaters in sight might make a good one shot...but if you try and make it last a dozen chapters, it's going to get old.
5.) Harry's time at Hogwarts: What he does is up to you, who he's friends with, house he's in...I don't care as long as his time in WWE is touched on. Also if he keeps that a secret or not is up to you, because say Dumbledore would take him away if he knew he wasn't at the Dursley's. Or if you don't want Harry to go to Hogwarts, write that. Hell, you can have him "home schooled," and write chapters based on that. Did you know Heath Slater is the greatest Potions Master in the Western Hemisphere? No? Well why else do you think he's still with the company?
6.) Reality: If you want the story accurate to the real lives of the men and women who perform...go for it, ex. Phil Brooks instead of CM you don't then don't worry about it. If the story is only accurate to the stories played out on air, then that's fine. So if you want the WCW/ECW Invasion storyline of 2001 or the Nexus's attacks to be real events...write that.
Other than that...have fun with it. I want to read something interesting. I'm going to take my own challenge too in the following chapters...except basically I'm just going to write a bunch of at best loosely connected one-shots because I have no idea what to do with...well all but a few scenes from Books 1-3.